Hydrochloric Acid

wouldnt they also have embalming fluid there to?

o.O is that bottle actually full?

Fill line looks like it's about halfway up, but my eyes could be playing tricks on me.

ooOoo whats this? wouldn't wanna be drunk and hangin around that

And the purpose of Hydrochloric Acid in a Psych Hospital is?...............

Why, that would be Torture, Twug.

Did someone call my name? ;-)

I loooove this

Lynne...the hydrochloric acid drip torture?

Motts, you are doing it again with this gallery. I have been kinda busy, and am just starting to catch up... :)

The constant storms on the planet Jupiter by theory rain Hydrochloric acid. At least that is what I read once.

All I can think about is Jim Carey doing Fire Marshall Bill on In Living Color....LOL! Great pic, though....keep up the wonderous job!!

Wonder what molar the acid is... could give more incite to the acids purpose

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Wow, that's kinda weird...It's a gorgeous shot though. ^_^

Oh wow - we have bottles exactly like that from the same company still on the shelves inthe older wings of the labs at work!
We all know they're out of date so they're never touched but the labs are barely ever used and we don't need the storage space so they've just been left there.
Now I wonder just how old they really are!

Molecular Acid

If it's only a dilute acid, then it's likely used as some form of cleaner.

My first job-I wasn't out of school yet- was @ ICR in Phila.
It was and still is a cancer center.In fact thats' what the "C" stands for and still does as it since has changed its' name.
Anyway I said all that to say this:I was around and had access to a lot of cool stuff. Bad stuff. Dangerous stuff. Peligro.And me being as demented as I am,well,you get the picture.
The job itsself was gross and disgusting-and I guess dangerous, but I was around so many cool people from different countries and the job itsself was easy going no pressure,although I think I might be radio active among other things.
And I did a lot of exploring and snooping around oh yes.Sort of early Urbex inside the bowels of a still living breathing building.
Chemicals,man I'm tellin' ya.Uncork an old bottle who's lable couldn't be read and it growls at you.Accidentally dropped mercury on a silver spoon and they amalgamated.(look that one up) Melted glass in bunson burners and made things like tobacco pipes.
Stole Sodium metal (oops I did it again),took it home and threw it in water and it blew the hell up.Killed the hedges overhead and released a cloud of hydrogen gas.(sodium is wierd:it begins hissing and melting as soon as you take it out of dry vacuum and it begins to react with moisture in the air)
These things were good for starters.

I used to clean this doctors office that had a library full of old medical things, like old bottles, a 'home visit' case filled with medicine [some still had little pills in it], and some medical equipment. I love old glass medicine bottles, they have such a feel to them. :D [early 1900's I'm guessing]

According to the label, the specific gravity is (or at least once was) 1.18, which (according to standard s.g. tables for this acid) makes it very close to 35% w/w, which is very close to saturated. (You can possible read "HCl = 36.40" on the 4th line of the label, but the digits are hard to make out.) In molarity, it works out to around 11 M (that's eleven, not one point one.) So yes, this is a strong, concentrated acid and would cause serious burns if you got it on you. Having said that, hydrochloric acid of this strength can be bought in any hardware store, without any restrictions. The only difference is that this acid is analytical grade, which means it is much purer than the stuff from the hardware store.


The main reasons for strong mineral acids in a medical lab setting are controlling pH for tests that are sensitive to it, and as a calibration standard. Conc. acid like this isn't used for a calibration standard (because it would need to be diluted before use, which adds a potential source of error), so this acid was probably intended to be a handy supply of acid that could be diluted down to whatever strength was required when needed to adjust pH in tests.

Seeing it here is a side effect of environmental protection regulations. It's obviously a good thing that companies can't dump chemical wastes down the drains. But the rules are so strict that when it comes to disposing of small amounts of moderately harmful chemicals, it's such a pain in the arse to go by the book that it's easier to leave it on the shelf and hope someone else deals with it. The fact is, for a small amount like this (half a one litre bottle), it would have been harmless to dilute it 100:1 in the sink, add a pound of bicarb. of soda to neutralise, then flushing it down the drain. It certainly would be a lot better than leaving it around where some kid might end playing with it and getting burned.

Oh no, HCl! This brings back memories of my past chemistry courses! ...

I know this might be a stupid question but I am 18 and not well educated in the area, but what is hydrochloric acid used for, i'm curious because the only place I've heard of it before was on The New Addams Family when they dropped Gomez into a vat of, I know thats not a good reference but thats why I'm curious...

Hydrochloric acid is found in the stomach, a digestive acid that the body naturally makes to help break down food.

I wonder if this is for someone who lacks it? Then, how it would be injected/used/dispensed? Or what used? So many questions ..